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Replication for "The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage"
Author: Jonathan Vogel

The folder contains three subfolders: Code, Data, and Figures



	Code

There are five Stata do files. 

Two of these do files are used in the national time-series analysis: ConstructingMW-annual.do and Ext_CM_national.do. These must be run in that order.

The remaining three do files are used in the state-group-level panel analysis: ConstructingMW-bian.do, MORG_cleaner.do, and Biannual_state_group.do. These should be run in that order.

Code 1) ConstructingMW-annual.do: This file constructs annual minimum wage series.

Code 2) Ext_CM_national.do: This file constructs the output for the national time-series analysis in the paper and online appendix.
In the paper, these files are: Figure I, Figure II, Figure III, and Table I, 
In the online appendix, these files are: Figure A.I, Table A.I, Table A.II, Table A.III, Table A.IV, and Table A.V.

Code 3) ConstructingMW-bian.do: This file constructs biannual minimum wage series.

Code 4) MORG_cleaner.do: This file cleans the raw MORG CPS data.

Code 5) Biannual_state_group.do: This file constructs the output for the state-group panel analysis in the paper and online appendix.
In the paper, these files are: Figure IV, Figure V, Figure VI, and Figure VII.
In the online appendix, these files are: Figure A.II, Figure A.III, Figure A.IV, Figure A.V, Figure A.VI, Figure A.VII, Figure A.VIII, Figure A.IX, and Table A.VI (which is entered manually)



	Data

The "Input" subfolder contains the necessary inputs for the analysis.

Data 1) cps_00095.dta is pulled from IPUMS CPS. It contains the March CPS used in the national time-series analysis.

Data 2) cps-to-census.dta is a concordance between state codes.

Data 3) The folder Data_NBER_MORG is from the NBER and contains the MORG CPS data between 1979 and 2020, which is used in the state-group panel analysis.

Data 4) FedMW_DOL.xlsx is the federal minimum wage from the Department of Labor.

Data 5) GDPDEF_qtr.csv is the GDP deflator from FRED.

Data 6) march-price-quantity-exp-all.dta is from the replication package for Autor, Katz, and Kearney (2008) cited in the paper and appendix.

Data 7) min-unemp-6305.dta is from the replication package for Autor, Katz, and Kearney (2008) cited in the paper and appendix.

Data 8) State_MWs_FRED is a folder containing state-level minimum wages from FRED.

Data 9) VZ_mw_state_quarterly_new.dta is from the replication package for Cengiz, Dube, Lindner, and Zipperer (2019) cited in the paper and appendix.

The "Output" subfolder contains output from running the code. These files can be removed before running the code.



	Figures

This folder contains all the figures and tables used in the paper. All are produced by the do files above, with the exception of Table A.VI (Summary_bite.tex), which I enter manually from output produced near the end of the Biannual_state_group.do (see ``Manually input these 8 numbers into the file'')

One note is that I have manually changed the AKK.tex output, moving a toprule and replacing a midrule as described at the end of Ext_CM_national.do